Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 30:120 (Oct 1873)
Article: Notes On Egyptology
Author: Joseph P. Thompson

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Notes On Egyptology

Rev. Joseph P. Thompson

The science of Egyptology has sustained a severe loss in the death of M. le Vicomte Emmanuel de Rougé, Member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, Curator of the Egyptian Museum in the Louvre, Professor of Archaeology in the College of France, and a principal editor of the Revue Archéologique. For a quarter of a century M. de Rouge had stood at the head of French Egyptologists, and he had contributed as much as any scholar of his time to the elucidation of Egyptian antiquities. The following list of his principal publications will witness to the activity of his mind, and the fertility of his pen; many other essays are scattered through Reviews, and the Journals of Scientific Academies and Societies.

1846: L’examen de l’ouvrage de M. Bunsen. 1848; Sur les éléments de l’écriture démotique des Egyptiens; published in the form of a letter to M. de Saulcy. 1849: Mémoire sur l’inscription du tombeau d’Ahmes.

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This memoir was read before the Academy, and attracted much attention in England and Germany, as well as in France. In the same year he published his Notice Sommaire des Monuments Egyptiens exposés dans les galeries du Musée du Louvre; a work which is not only a guide to the treasures of that collection, but a condensed treatise upon the history, the art, and the religion of Egypt. 1851: Mémoire sur la statuette naophore du Vatican; this treats particularly of the reign of Cambyses in Egypt. In the same year appeared his valuable Rapport sur l’exploration scientifique des principales collections Egyptiennes renfermées dans les divers Musées publics. Also a curious theological monograph, entitled explication d’une inscription Egyptienne prouvant que les anciens Egyptiens ont connu la génération éternelle du Fils de Dieu. 1856: Note sur les noms Egyptiens des Planètes. To this year belong also two of the most valuable of Count de Rougé’s publications: Le Poeme de Pen-ta-Our, and Le Roman des Deux Fréres. The Poem celebrates the campaigns of Rameses the Great in a style which Renan has likened to the Moniteur’s adulation of Napoleon III. (an improved translation was published in 1870, “Recueil de Travauxei”); the Romance has some striking resemblances to the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, and its appearance in Rougé’s translation produced quite a stir in religious circles, as well as in the world of science. 1858: Etude sur une stèle Egyptienne. 1860: Etudes sur le Rituel funéraire des anciens Egyptiens — a prelude to his great edition of the Rituel itself, which was begun a year or two later in folio numbers. To the same year belong his Notice de quelques fragments de l’inscription de Karnak; this ...